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For a summary of the responses to the ABS Discussion Paper, see the «Alternative Business Structures Working Group Report» at Tab 8.2 of the Report to Convocation, (pdf) February 26, 2015, of LSUC's Professional Regulation Committee.

Instead, the Commission recommends that the Entity Regulation / Alternative Business Structures Working Group develop a White Paper on how to «help lawyers and law firms think more systematically about how to better serve clients.»

When the 20/20 Commission created Working Groups in February, 2010, it initially called one of them «Law Firm Regulation / Alternative Business Structures Working Group,» [12] or, alternatively, «Entity Regulation / Alternative Business Structures Working Group.»

In the minutes subsequent to this February, 2011 meeting, the relevant Working Group is referred to simply as the «Alternative Business Structures Working Group.»

[i] Alternative Business Structures Working Group Report to Convocation (at Tab 4) of the Professional Regulation Committee Report, February 27, 2014 (Co-Chairs, Malcolm Mercer & Susan McGrath).

Alternative Business Structures Working Group.

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The modules Thompson Rivers students will work on include drawing up a memo on an alternative business structure for their company, as well as blogging about activities and using cloud - based practice management systems.

There are signs that this concept of a total change in culture and working patterns is becoming more popular, with the Law Society survey reporting that 475 alternative business structures (ABSs) were in operation: 116 more than a year earlier making up 5 % of all firms.

It would be really easy to read last week's report from the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures as thoughtful and considered.

Memo to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures.

Gehl, Nicholas E. Letter to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures.

Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

[19] Women's Paralegal Association of Ontario, Letter to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures, January 30, 2015, 2 - 3, http://www.lsuc.on.ca/uploadedFiles/Womens%20Paralegal%20Association%20of%20Ontario.pdf.

Equity Advisory Group Working Group on Alternative Business Structures.

Letter to the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business Structures.

Today our topic is How Alternative Business Structures are working in a UK law firm and will they cross the pond?

Today, our subject is How Alternative Business Structures are working in a UK law firm, will they cross the pond?

A NewLaw pioneer for the last 20 years, Chris has been an advisor and architect of a range of new legal business models, agile working, process improvement, outsourcing and shared service strategies and the creation of a string of new entrant Alternative Business Structures (ABS) in the UKbusiness models, agile working, process improvement, outsourcing and shared service strategies and the creation of a string of new entrant Alternative Business Structures (ABS) in the UKBusiness Structures (ABS) in the UK market.

For Higgins, an elocution teacher who traded in British class prejudice by offering to improve clients» social standing through posh talk, the education of a woman was essentially a troublesome Alternative Business Structure (ABS)-- he could work with the moving parts but the brain remained a mystery....

Citing globalization, technology, market competition and a need for expanded access to justice, the report says lawyers must be able to work «through new structures and in conjunction with other professionals (including alternative business structures).»

She is at work on a book - length look at the effect of alternative business structures on legal practice in the U.K., Australia and the U.S., to be released by ABA Publishing.

With the Scottish Government currently working on a new regulatory framework that should see so - called alternative business structures (ABS) introduced in the near future, Mr Boyd said that «ABS is something we would obviously use».

Not only does this structure permit us to meet our founding purpose — namely, high quality work for substantially less cost — but it also accelerates our evolution into an exceptional national — and to some extent international — law firm that provides businesses, law firms and attorneys with a viable alternative to traditional opportunities.

Looking at current initiatives like the Nova Scotia's Barristers» Society's Transforming Regulation consultation and the work of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Working Group on Alternative Business structures, it is apparent that right now there is significant «big picture» thinking going on at Canadian law societies about how to innovate and modernize lawyer regulation.

Several have working groups in place at the moment that are considering the permissibility of alternative business structures, and those groups contact us from time to time.

Leyton UK Partners LLP (registered number OC388386) is an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) under licence number 619453 in respect of legal work.

[13](The Commission's documentation after this meeting accordingly reflects that the name of the Working Group was changed to «Alternative Business Structures»).

It mentioned entity regulation just once more — in its December, 2015 Informational Report to the House of Delegates, in a list of the Commission's ongoing work, it included a reference to «Ongoing discussion and study of additional regulatory opportunities, including but not limited to alternative business structures and entity regulation.»

At the same time, the Working Group would «also move forward contemporaneously with its study and analysis of developments relating to alternative business structures.»

We have been working with our counterparts in Saskatchewan and Alberta in order to explore how law societies can appropriately and effectively implement entity regulation and allow for alternative business structures in a coordinated way.

[9] One of the first orders of business for the Commission in February 2010 was to appoint working groups, one of which was referred to as «Law Firm Regulation / Alternative Business Structuresbusiness for the Commission in February 2010 was to appoint working groups, one of which was referred to as «Law Firm Regulation / Alternative Business StructuresBusiness Structures.»

In September 2012, the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) formed its Alternative Business Structures (ABS) Working Group to explore alternative options to permitted law and paralegal firm Alternative Business Structures (ABS) Working Group to explore alternative options to permitted law and paralegal firm sStructures (ABS) Working Group to explore alternative options to permitted law and paralegal firm alternative options to permitted law and paralegal firm structuresstructures.

The work in the Prairie provinces began with a focus on alternative business structures (ABS).

On 6 April 2011, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) published its new Handbook, six months ahead of what it fanfares will, from next October, be «the advent of a new type of law firm, alternative business structures, and a radically new approach by the SRA to its work».

These firms are making alternate fee arrangements, alternative business structures, legal process outsourcing, off - shoring — and many more of the buzzwords of the legal futures literature — work for them.

Actually, under that alternative business structure, one of the big themes kept coming back to you was the idea that you need outside capital to make something like this work.

Other topics to be covered include client development and networking, case studies of innovative legal services delivery mechanisms and alternative business structures, and work / life balance including the study of emotional intelligence and mindful lawyering practices.

the Law Society of Upper Canada working group on alternative business structures issued a report advising that it «does not propose to further examine any majority or controlling non-licensee ownership models for traditional law firms in Ontario at this time» but it will continue to explore options for «more limited non-licensee ownership models.»

For example, LSUC ignores the problem and its duties as set out in s. 4.2 of the (Ontario) Law Society Act, while «fast - tracking» the Alternative Business Structures issue (ABS issue) to the quick creation of: (1) an ABS Committee (2) a (biased) ABS Discussion Paper written by the Committee; (3) the online publication of the responses thus obtained; (4) the online publication of a summary of those responses — all done by the work of those self - interested benchers who have campaigned hard to have ABSs made legal; and (5) a proposed vote in 2016 to determine the law society's position as to making ABSs legal.

Law firms currently face a myriad of challenges (to name just a few...): technological advances, changing market structure, big data, predictive analytics, business model re-design, alternative career structures, changing talent pools, emerging new working patterns, alternative talent requirements.

Is it any wonder good people are increasingly looking for better alternatives than working in a private legal practice; clients are looking to other providers to add value to their businesses; and that external disruptors will continue to flock to the legal profession in droves to exploit law firms» soft underbelly - our lack of flexibility, failure to innovate, unwillingness to collaborate, our short term greed for the almighty dollar, our 19th century governance structures, absence of diversification - and most of all our cultural desert.

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